The world was sent reeling when legendary Motörhead frontman Ian Fraser "Lemmy" Kilmister passed away three days after Christmas last year due to "an extremely aggressive cancer" at age 70. Then, on January 10th, David Bowie, also known as his enigmatic musical persona Ziggy Stardust and as Jareth, the Goblin King from the movie Labyrinth, lost his battle against liver cancer, aged 69. And then, just a mere four days after that, British stage and film icon Alan Rickman, famous for his role in the Harry Potter films as Severus Snape, passed away at age 69, also due to cancer.

All of them due to f**kin' cancer.

You were taken away from us too soon. May your legacies live on. As for you, cancer...